Jim Bakker Show - God Gives Warning Signs Before Bringing Judgement
Aired: 2015-07-08
Duration: 04:34


=== God's Warning Before Judgment (03:51) ===

[00:00:00]  I believe God always warns before he judges.
[00:00:03]  And the point of this is that this was to get out before what is coming, before what is coming.
[00:00:10]  God's people can prepare, and those who are not God's people can look afterwards and say, God is calling us.
[00:00:16]  We need to get back to God.
[00:00:17]  We need to get to God.
[00:00:18]  Yes.
[00:00:18]  That's it.
[00:00:18]  It is the harvest time.
[00:00:20]  God's heart is revival.
[00:00:23]  And sometimes people ask me, is it going to be judgment or revival?
[00:00:26]  And I say it can be both.
[00:00:28]  There can be revival through judgment.
[00:00:30]  In fact, America, I believe, has grown so deaf to the voice of God that it's going to take God shouting and shaking for America or for those who will to come back.
[00:00:41]  That's the point.
[00:00:42]  God's heart is redemption.
[00:00:43]  No, we get this right.
[00:00:45]  The harbinger.
[00:00:46]  The bricks fell.
[00:00:48]  Right?
[00:00:49]  That was God's warning.
[00:00:52]  The Jewish people said, no, we're not going to repent.
[00:00:57]  We're just going to get bigger and better.
[00:00:59]  Is that right?
[00:01:00]  Yes.
[00:01:00]  Defiance.
[00:01:01]  So they rebuilt.
[00:01:03]  Yes.
[00:01:03]  And didn't do what God said.
[00:01:05]  Is that right?
[00:01:06]  That's right.
[00:01:07]  Defiance instead of repentance.
[00:01:10]  And that's exactly what happened after 9-11.
[00:01:12]  So what did they do next?
[00:01:14]  They built.
[00:01:15]  And then what did God do?
[00:01:17]  Because they ignored the warning.
[00:01:19]  What happens in the Bible?
[00:01:22]  You don't have to say it's going to happen to America, but what happened the other time people disobeyed?
[00:01:28]  What happened is God gave a grace period, a period of grace, to come back or not.
[00:01:33]  And then when that period was over, this is a pattern more than once in the Bible.
[00:01:37]  Many times.
[00:01:37]  Happened with Judah too.
[00:01:39]  First came this attack by Nebuchadnezzar, then years later comes the full thing.
[00:01:43]  Well, with this, what happened is a number of years later, God then says, okay, now I'm withdrawing my protection entirely.
[00:01:52]  And then the same ones who brought the first shaking come back, but now it's not just a temporary wake-up call.
[00:01:58]  Now it's the full thing.
[00:02:00]  And so they come back, the Assyrians, come back, and now the kingdom of Israel, northern kingdom, is wiped off the face of the earth.
[00:02:07]  God warned them, called to them, pleaded with them, shook them, did everything he could do.
[00:02:13]  The Bible says it.
[00:02:14]  And they turned from him.
[00:02:15]  They rejected all of it.
[00:02:17]  They rejected his prophets.
[00:02:18]  They rejected the warning.
[00:02:19]  And then finally it came.
[00:02:21]  He lifted his hands.
[00:02:23]  Now, here's the warning.
[00:02:26]  There's some of you sitting right here, the church you go to has been teaching you over and over and over that God never sends judgment.
[00:02:39]  That God doesn't do these things.
[00:02:42]  How many have heard most preachers?
[00:02:44]  They say, oh, God doesn't do that.
[00:02:47]  God never causes anything bad to happen.
[00:02:52]  Rabbi, I'm sorry, but we've got bad doctrine, false doctrine going around.
[00:02:58]  When you say God wouldn't do this, you haven't read this book.
[00:03:04]  The Old Testament, especially, that's all God was doing.
[00:03:07]  It was dealing with his people he loves, and they were backsliding and coming back, and backsliding and coming back.
[00:03:13]  And he used who to come against them.
[00:03:16]  What did he do?
[00:03:19]  God didn't come down and say, bam.
[00:03:22]  What did he do?
[00:03:24]  He had been protecting them all that time.
[00:03:26]  That's right.
[00:03:26]  And so he finally said, okay, now I have to lift this.
[00:03:29]  I cannot bless you as you defy me.
[00:03:32]  And so finally he lifted it and the enemies came in.
[00:03:35]  And God even used that for redemption at the end.

=== Honoring The Ten Commandments (00:57) ===

[00:03:38]  But he allowed, finally, he allowed what would have happened anyway if he was not putting a supernatural protection.
[00:03:46]  And that's what God, I believe, has done to America.
[00:03:48]  We've been the most protected nation on earth.
[00:03:50]  We've been blessed.
[00:03:52]  We've been spoiled, rotten children of God almost because God's blessed us.
[00:03:56]  We've sent out missionaries.
[00:03:58]  We've done the things, but we're not doing what we did before.
[00:04:01]  We honored God.
[00:04:02]  We honored the cross.
[00:04:05]  We honored the Ten Commandments even in our courts.
[00:04:09]  When you take the Ten Commandments out of law, you don't have any foundation.
[00:04:17]  Why be good?
[00:04:19]  If there's not a supreme being telling us right from wrong, laws man makes up.
[00:04:24]  What good are they?
[00:04:25]  That's why we're in a mess.
[00:04:27]  We're trying to redefine every law that God wrote.
[00:04:32]  And so we have mocked God.